Learn about the effective hybrid golf swing, perfect for senior golfers, from Todd Kolb of VLS Golf. Discover how utilizing a hybrid golf club can improve your game!
so why do so many senior golfers struggle with contact with their hybrids they top them they chunk them they’re all over the place I’ll give you three reasons number one is they don’t understand proper ball position number two is they don’t understand that the finish with a hybrid is actually a little bit different than it is with an iron and number one is they don’t understand that they need a longer back swing I got to fix for all three of those a hybrid is one of the best clubs in the bag especially if we know how to hit it and it’s a club you probably are hitting a lot but it’s designed different than an iron and it’s designed different than a driver so it requires some different things so let’s talk about ball position first of all you know if you followed any of our stuff here at Us Golf TV and vs golf the vertical line swing the book The Bad Li all that stuff that we’ve laid out there that when we hit an iron we basically want the ball to be positioned kind of off the buttons on my shirt give or take a little bit right and when we hit a driver it’s more off my lead shoulder with a hybrid okay so kind of where the logo on my golf shirt is so how can we find that position so what I want you to do is just go ahead and put your feet together okay and position the ball kind of in the center like that and place your hybrid I’ve got my maxford hybrid but place your hybrid kind of you know right behind the golf ball and then just take a step towards the target maybe 2 3 in and then take a little pretty good step away from the target so whenever we’re getting proper ball position we always start with our feet together and the ball in the center place the club Behind the golf ball all right little step towards and a step away now you can also just simply take an alignment Rod or a golf club and you can kind of then also see where it is relative to your feet or your chest if I see a mistake you probably got the ball too far forward number two is the finish position when we’re hitting a hybrid or a fairway wood I want you to feel like the handle kind of has that high handle finish and we’ve talked a couple times before about the great Arnold Palmer and he had this classic finish when he finished it boom the handle was high and he kind of slashed it and that’s what I want you to feel let me go ahead and hit one here and watch the handle position and then I’m going to show you how it’s different than when I hit an iron cuz an iron R are you’re hitting more down on it a hybrid hybrid is kind of that in between I’m not hitting up I’m not hitting down I’m kind of glancing or grazing the grass so here we go I got my proper ball position now I’m going to give it that high handle finish oh wow this club is hot okay that thing just jumped off the face so notice when I finished the handle was kind of up and it was kind of high now on an iron it’s a little bit more round just kind of here hybrid right there all right so that was number two now number one and this is by far the most important and the biggest reason why you’re maybe topping it or chunking it with your hybrids and that is length of back swing okay when I’m hitting this hybrid like I said earlier I’ve got my Max vert right here 18° 18° Max vert I need some distance and in order to get distance I need some length to swing so I can get some speed okay now because hybrid are longer than irons we naturally stand a little further away from the golf ball now the thing you got to watch out for and this is the whole one of the big parts of the vertical line swing is is that when you get too far from the golf ball or further away from the golf ball the swing naturally wants to work more around okay now when my swing Works around notice from the front view right there it’s very difficult for me to get any length to it versus when my swing Works more straight back and up look how high that handle is remember the high handle finish the Hy Palmer finish we want the same thing on the back swing we need some length cuz with length of Swing comes time to generate some Club it speed so let me show you the difference here again so this would be the bad way low and around so there’s no length to the swing so I got to really accelerate on the down swing to try to get any speed we pull up we top it you name it all bad stuff but if I can get that swing working more back and up here we go I got to get got to get that proper ball position all right Nick’s going to give me a thumbs down on that cuz I just jumping on jumping on jumping in there right get that proper ball position logo on the shirt okay I’m going to get some length now I want you to notice where my club travels it’s here and then it’s up here and up with the AR finish oh man I love the I love the hybrids all right that is I got the thumbs up from Nick that there my friends is how experienced golfers or any golfer can start hitting their hybrids better now that we got you hitting the golf ball more solid check out my next 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6 Comments
Thanks for these tips!
This is Jeff from the SF Bay Area. In using the sweeping swing path with the hybrid, do I also need to minimize the left shoulder lift done with other clubs in the post impact?
Without the length on the backswing, there's no distance! Good reason to use the VSL system! Well Done Todd!
Eric from Jacksonville, North Carolina. I seem to struggle with the hybrid more than with a wood.
Why don’t you make a full set of hybrid irons?
I am 65years old from Dublin living in rome. Got both the maxvert hybrids. Struggle to get much distance with both hybirds trying to hit further using yr VSL method but struggling at the moment to get any length.